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APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1918.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

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Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

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IRONING BOARD.

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VICTOR MANUEL DE CANO, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO UTILITY DEVICES COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

IRONING-BOARD.

Application filed April 27, 1918.

This invention relates to a certain new.

and useful improvement in ironing-boards, the chief object of my present invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive, and durable ironing-board which is especially adapted for apartment or household use, which maybe readily and conveniently folded from open or operative condition to closed or inoperative condition or unfolded from closed to open condition, which, when unfolded and opened for use, will be firm and rigid and which, when folded and closed, will occupy a small space, and in which one end of the board proper may be temporarily freed from its supporting frame to permit the placement thereover of a continuous garment, such as an apparel-skirt.

With the above and other objects in view, my present invention resides in certain novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out ili he claims.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a plan view of an ironingboard constructed in accordance with, and embodying, my invention, the ironing-board being shown in unfolded, open, or set up position for use, a portion of the board proper and its removable pad or cover being broken away and the supporting-frame being also shown by dotted lines in folded or closed position;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the board as shown in Fig. 1, with parts of the supporting and board-frames broken away, the board and its pad being partly in section, and the supporting-frame being also shown by dotted lines as partially folded;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevar t'ion taken .approXimatelv on the line 3-3, Fig. 1, with portions of the supports broken away, the supporting-slat for the open endof the board being shown in dotted lines in swung position to aline with the board;

Fig. .4: is a transverse sectional elevation Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 231,172.

of the-board taken approximately on the line H, Fig. 1, showing the permanent connections between the board proper and its supporting-frame Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional elevation taken approximately on the line 55, Fig. 1, showing the releasable connection between the1 board proper and. its supporting-frame; an

Fig. is a fragmental sectional plan taken approximately on the line 66, Fig. 2, showing the releasable connection between the board proper and its supporting frame.

Referring more particularly to the said drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, 11 indicate the side rails of the supporting-frame, which are connected at one end only by a cross-piece 2. By preference, the rails 1 are relatively greater spaced apart at their connected ends than at their relatively free ends, as shown in F1g.'1.

Disposed between the rails 11, is a board-frame which comprises a pair of rails 33 arranged. in parallelism with the rails 11 and held in such position by a tie-rod l and bolts 55, the tie-rod 4 extending transversely adjacent the cross-piece 2 through all the rails 1-1 and .33 and the bolts 55 extending inwardly through the rails 11 and 33 at points intermediate the cross-piece 2 and the tie-rod 4:, as seen particularly in Fig. 1. At the wider end of the frame, as also seen in Fig. l, the rails 8-3 are suitably fixed to the frame crosspiece 2, which also provides an end-member for the board-frame.

In order to provide for storing the board, as a whole, when not in use, to occupy relatively little space, I provide suitable supports preferably in the form of legs 6 which are connected in pairs by diagonally disposed braces 7 and cross-pie es 8 and pivotally connected at their upper ends to the frame-rails 11 by the bolts 5 at the wider end of the board and by somewhat similar bolts 9 at the narrower end of the board, which latter bolts, however, extend only through the legs 6 and the rails 1, as seen in Figs. 1"and 5, leaving the board-frame wholly free from the supporting frame-rails 1 except for the. tie-rod 4t and bolts 5. Pivotally connected at their ends to the rails 1 and to the legs 6, are suitable preferably knuckle-jointed Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

braces 10 adapted, when the board is in unfolded or opened position, to hold the legs 6 rigidly in extended position. As best seen in Fig. 1, the foldable leg-support at the narrower end of the board is of less width which add rigidity to the board-frame. 12

indicates the ironing-board proper, which is disposed between the rails 3, the board 12 being, by preference, conveniently removable from its frame, which expedient provides for easy placement or removal of the pad or cover 13. As seen particularly in Figs. 4 and 5, the frame-rails 3-3 are formed or provided along their upper inner edge with rabbets or shoulders 14, into and between which the board 12 with its pad or cover 13 are placed and which are so disposed as to frictionally hold the board and pad against ready or accidental dislodgment therefrom.

Pivotally secured to the under face of one of the cross-pieces 11, is a slat 15 oppositely cut away at its ends, as at 16-16, to operatively engage, when swung to the position thereof shown particularly in Figs. 1 and 5, in oppositely disposed slots or grooves 17 formed in the edges of the forward legs 6, and when so engaged constitutes a firm, rigid support for the otherwise free, unsupported end of the board-frame.

The board as a whole is conveniently and easily foldable into or out of open position, and when in closed position may be stood in a corner or other out of the way place. For such purpose, the end-frame member 2 is preferably provided with the cushioning members 18. The board frame-rails 3 hold the board proper 12 and its pad 13 in proper ironing position and prevent warping or curling of the board 12, which may be relatively of little thickness, as shown. It will be noted particularly from Fig. 5 that the board proper and its frame are not connected except as describedwith the supporting-frame, whereby, when the slat 15 is swunginto a position approximately parallel with the board or into the position thereof shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, a sectionally continuous garment, such as a ladys skirt, may be conveniently placed or threaded upon the board for ironing purposes. The slat 15, when afterward swung to seat its ends in the grooves 17 in the legs 6, provides a firm, rigid support for the otherwise free end of the board. The board as a whole may be inexpensively manufactured and, as has been found from practice,

7 is exceedingly useful in apartments, households, or the like; I might add'that the supporting-legs 6 are preferably of a length or height that a clothes-basket may be conveniently placed under the board 12 and intermediate the pairs of legs 6 when the board is in use.

I am aware that minor changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my new ironing-board may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An ironing-board structure including, in combination, a main frame comprising side rails rigidly fixed together at one end, the opposite end of the frame being open,

board-supporting-rails disposed lengthwise between, and spaced from, the main frame side rails and rigidly fixed to the main frame only at a point distant from the open end of the main frame, whereby a ladys skirt or other such garment may be threaded upon the board-supporting rails, an ironingboard proper disposed upon the supportingrails, supporting-legs for the structure attached to the main frame, and means for releasably fastening the supporting-rails and main frame together, and thereby support.

the supporting-rails and'said board, at the open end of the frame.

2. An ironing-board structure including, in combination, a main frame comprising side rails rigidly fixed together at one end, the opposite end of the frame being open, board-supporting-rails disposed lengthwise between and spaced from the main frame side rails and rigidly fixed to the'main frame only at a point distant from the open end of the main frame, whereby a ladys skirt or other such garment may be threaded upon the board-supporting-rails, an ironing-board proper disposed upon the supporting-rails,

' supporting-legs for the structure attached to the main frame, and a bar carried by the supporting-rails and adapted for engagement with some of the supporting-legs to releasably fasten the supporting-rails and main frame together, and thereby support the supporting-rails and said board, at the open end of the frame.

3. A foldable ironing-board structure including, in combination, a main frame comprising side rails rigidly fixed-together at one end, the opposite end of the frame being open, board supporting rails disposed lengthwise between and spaced from the main frame side rails and rigidly fixed to the main frame only at a point distant from the open end of the main frame, whereby a ladys skirt or other such garment may be threaded upon the supporting-rails, an ironing-board proper disposed upon the supporting-rails, supporting-legs for the structure pivotally attached to the main frame and foldable relatively to the main frame and supporting-rails into and out Of open position, and a bar pivotally carried by the supporting-rails and adapted for engagement With some of the supporting-legs only when the same are in open position to releas- VICTOR MANUEL DE CANO. 

